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Goshen College
SST
office
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 Kara
Kreider is staying in Grand Bassam with a young couple. Her
host father teaches high school physics and her mother is studying
to be a tailor. Kara had been working in an orphanage for girls
and some boys. She was helping in the early classes in which the
students who come from various ethnic backgrounds learn to speak
and write French. The students have gone home to relatives for vacation
and now she is starting work in a clinic.
Angie Lehman and Nathan Mishler are in Bouaflé. Nathan
is staying with the family of Daniel Gbe. They live on the compound
of a trade school of which Daniel is the director.  Students
learn various trades such as woodworking and masonry.
Nathan has been working some in the woodworking shop where he is
impressed at how they build furniture with only a photograph of
the finished product to guide them. The shop has a host of power
woodworking tools (planers, jointers, table saws, etc.). But the
first year students are required to use only hand tools to prepare
them for work in areas of the country where power tools are not
available. Nathan has also helped to organize some of the school's
computer files.
 Angie
has been greatly enjoying her huge family. Her household includes
children ages 8, 11, 13, 14, 18, 18, 20, 22. In the mornings she
has been helping to teach English to 5th and 6th graders in a private
school. The classes have as many as 40 students and sometimes she
is the only teacher. In the afternoons she has been going to a sewing
school with her sisters. They use foot-treadle sewing machines and
work entirely without patterns.
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